Ovaciones has details on the IWRG/Azteca show.
– Even though it’s going to be IWRG running things, the shows are going to be called “Lucha Azteca”
– The program will air on Channel 7 (TV Azteca) starting Saturday, at 11 AM. It’s a one hour show.
– It will NOT air Mexico City.
– Silver King, Dr. Wagner Jr., Mascara Ano 2000, Tarzan Boy, Rayman, Turbo, Gronda, Pantera and LA Park are some of the non-IWRG regulars mentioned as working here. The usual mix of IWRG guys (Oficials, Jr. Capos) and UMLL indepedents (Hijos de Solitario and Anibal, Negro Navarro) round out the list. I guess we’ll know if CMLL has any issues with that by Friday.
– Announced taping schedule looks something like this:
03/05 Roots Magic Club: for 03/08, 03/15, 03/22?
03/22 Tampico: for 03/29, 04/05
04/06 Arena Naucalpan: for 04/12, 04/19
04/16 Roots Magic Club: for 04/26, 05/03
05/02 Centro Banamex/Lucha Libre Expo: for 05/10, 05/17
and two tapings per month for the rest of the year, if this keeps up. They’ve got 10 tapings planned, which takes them thru July.
RFC posted one press release, Black Terry Jr. has a longer version, where they mention running in 14 different cities. That’s a lot of expansion. Now that I’ve give up on it, there’s a IWRG roster too. I think if we’ve got Mini Skayde running around, they need to get the bigger Skayde showing up too.
I’ve seen a video feed for TV Azteca 7, but I’m not sure if this is Mexico City (and IWRG will be blocked out) or not. I couldn’t get it running myself.
IWRG’s website is down, but has been for a few days. Maybe they can get Azteca to do that for them.
It’s possible that the Azteca 7 feed you get is the national feed, and would allow you to see IWRG. This deal sounds like to old ECW deal where they were on Fox Sports Network in the US, at an hour that most FSN affiliates aired informercials or local programming, meaning no one saw ECW.
If IWRG is not on in Mexico City, this whole thing would be a waste of time.
The TV Azteca website is charging $10 a week for the feed. Not free. Ya gotta pay to see it.
Not airing in Mexico City probably means they can not hold shows there…
I may know of a program that can get the TV Azteca feed. I’ll look into it and post back for the regulars here if I get it working.